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Scientists may have worked out how to defeat antibiotic-resistant superbugs
It's been known for a while that bacteria are rapidly becoming immune to the current range of antibiotics humanity has available. That's why it's harder to get hold of pills now than it was a few years ago, simply because if we don't learn to get by without them, we'll probably all die of some hideous mutated strain of MRSA in a few years' time. Rather than simply developing new antibiotics to throw at the problem, however, a team of researchers from the University of East Anglia and the Diamond Light Source in Oxford claims to have discovered a way to undermine a bacteria's ability to develop drug-resistance in the first place -- causing them to wither and die before it even becomes a problem.
